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People who feel included and wanted, who know that their presence on the job is important – are less apt to be late or absent. Anyone who could come up with a guaranteed cure for lateness and absenteeism could sell the secret and retire in style.

Lateness and absenteeism are perennial problems for which there seems no cure – you must make it a point to continually work at it. Why? Well, one is to be sure – through personal contact and explanation – that everyone appreciates the problems that lateness and absence create. If one person is frequently late, why shouldn’t everyone be? And if everyone is late, why shouldn’t someone else come in even later? Obviously there’s only one sensible place to draw the line – everyone should be ready to start work on time.

Getting It Right Today!Modern Etiquette is about minding your manners in the workplace. Surprisingly many of the points dealt with would have been in our Mother’s golden rules to polite behavior.​What gives people pause for thought? Well, there are the so many little points of social manners. It is interesting to break down the topics. Dress codes are a hot issue or rather a lack of them among the Gen Y and the employers. It is partly about how casual is casual? When men and women are invited to an occasion, and the stipulation ‘dress informal’ often results in women reading this as a chance to rush into their best whilst the mean have no such interpretation of the liberal code and feel free to come as they are.